Whenever our senior team participates in professional development workshops with GPs and allied health practitioners, we often hear “I don’t have any eating disorder patients”. However, statistically speaking, a GP sees (either knowingly or unknowingly) at least 1 patient with an active eating disorder each day. Eating disorders have the highest mortality and morbidity rates of all psychiatric illnesses with reports claiming that someone with an eating disorder dies every […]
Interview with Dr. Kiera Buchanan, Director of the Centre For Integrative Health, after being awarded the 2017 James Cook University ‘Outstanding Alumni’ Award.
Ashleigh Olive proposes a number of red flags that can help to identify someone with or at risk of an eating disorder.
Ash Olive speaks with Triple J’s Hack about Exercise and Eating Disorders Read More »
In our commitment to reducing the prevalence and mortality rates of eating disorders, CFIH identified the need to improve our model of service delivery model
Changes to the CFIH Model of Care for Eating Disorders Read More »
I met Kiera in 2018 on a trip with ‘The Hunger Project’. On a bus in rural Uganda, we spoke about her work as a psychologist empowering people of all body shapes and sizes.
On International Women’s Day, we passionately strike the #EachforEqual pose. To us, this pose symbolises equality, compassionate boundaries, allyship, and the disruption of destructive gender-based cycles.
In an interview with Hack on Triple J, CFIH Psychologist, Ashleigh Olive, proposed a number of red flags that can help to identify someone with or at risk of an eating disorder.
The much-awaited changes to the Medicare scheme have finally been announced. However, not everybody will see themselves represented in the eligibility criteria for the scheme.
New ED Specific Medicare Benefits Schedule: What if my patient isn’t eligible? Read More »
Get ready for 2019 with 31 great tips for your recovery journey; one for every day of January!
31 fantastic tips – one for every day in January! Read More »
Check out Dietitian Kate Pollard’s top tips to include veg anytime in your day.
Dietitians Kate & Kate have rounded up the top 5 that get in the way of a healthy relationship with food.
